On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 22:43 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Gary Schnabl wrote: > > I used a hybrid of OOo and online help styles for variety, especially if > > the path is only secondary to the immediate discussion. The online Help > > seems to favor this menu path approach: > > > > To access this command... > > > > Choose *Insert - Envelope - Envelope* tab > > > > > > So who writes the online help? When I edited for Motorola's Freescale > > Semiconductor, the software implementation engineers or other technical > > editors there used the FrameMaker sources as input to Doxygen for the > > CHM help files. > > I'm not sure who writes the online help; someone else on this > list (GRS?) should be able to tell us.
Mostly Sun folk with a smattering of others from the documentation project. Feel free to join us. > > I don't recall why we chose to use the > symbol in paths, instead > of a dash (hyphen) or a vertical bar; probably it was because > that was the preference of those people who expressed an opinion > at the time. At one stage the online help was so badly written > and inconsistent that I don't think anyone at OOoAuthors > seriously considered emulating any aspect of it. (To be fair, the > help has been vastly improved, despite its many continued > shortcomings.) > This is a convention that we chose for the doc project before OOoAuthors. Why because it looks like an arrow and cannot be mistaken for a hyphen.
